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Puck is a weekly webcomic that, in the words of one fan, is "mostly irreverent humor concerning a pretty girl with freckles and a hot she-devil who wears fan-service costumes." Surreal fantasy slice-of-life crazy-type stuff about the world's funniest redhead! Updates Tuesday.

Puck 428

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Fan favorite Hotdog Guy returns as another bookend segment as we transition between story arcs! He’s good for that. And honestly, I’m not sure whether he qualifies as a ‘fan favorite’ given the fact that I don’t think I’ve heard many readers say much about him. If they do, it’s usually something like, “Who’s this guy and why is Puck holding a hot dog?” It’s a long story.

Next week, it’s time for another ‘fan favorite’ to make an appearance.

I hear that they like to be themed to match their location.
At a beach, fish.
In the desert, lizards.
Jungle, monkeys.
Sewer, rats.
Tundra, penguins.
At least, that’s how it works in many computer games.

A late gourmand Lady of my acquaintance told me that supermarket cheese < Cracker Barrel cheese < wheel cheese. I guess all of them are better than government cheese, which I have never tasted. And I guess I never will till my bf kicks me out 😛

I agree with that breakdown, though I dispute one part of it: it has long been my opinion that there is no discernible difference between the grocery store ‘no name’ cheese and the Cracker Barrel variety. (Or Black Diamond, or whatever other semi-pricey cheese variety is available in your area.) I think they come from the same dang factory. And seeing as one option is almost half the price of the other option, I always go with the cheaper.

Not sure if I would call Hotdog Guy a favourite, my response to seeing him is more a casual, “oh, cool, it’s Hotdog Guy.”
So, I guess Indo like seeing these old recurring characters show up from time to time.

The best hot dogs I’ve ever had came from a now-non-existent stand-later-restaurant in Fishkill, New York. But, to this day, I don’t know whether they were beef or pork. In this latter-day world, I favor beef franks.

I honestly find the idea of a mashgiach going through the processing plant to be very reassuring. I feel he’d probably notice it if someone were, say, dumping crates of squirrel carcasses into the meat grinder. Not that I’m against squirrel consumption, but I want to know what I’m buying.

You don’t have to pay for anything in that game. It’s the right kind of free-to-play, where everything’s free, but if you want to speed things up or take shortcuts, you can pay for that. I’m also biased because it’s produced by a Canadian company that’s local to my area.

It’s not back online, sadly. I’ve been hassling my brother to at least throw the comics on Smackjeeves or some other free webcomic hosting site. He shut it down because he was paying hosting fees and only, like, three people would visit every week. (You were likely one of those three.) He didn’t feel it was worth it. But now there’s no easily accessible source of his comics now, which sucks.

I like to imagine that if Puck actually is as old as the comic claims, she’s spent most of that time holed up in dingy one-room apartments doing very little. She’s somewhat prone to ennui, and I think has a mildly depressive personality. So if anything, this whole comic’s sort of been a documentation of her unexpected awakening into the world of family, friendship and love. Such as it is.

When is the last time you heard of a fairy having family drama, other than spousal jealousy? Well, there’s Tolkien and the family drama of the Silmarillion, what with weird old uncle Fëanor wanting a lock of Galadiel’s hair, but those are Elves, and Noldor to boot!

Hot Dog Guy is my personal favorite of the non-main characters (given how rarely he shows up, I personally classify him as a side-character. Unless you say he’s a main character. Then he is, in fact, my favorite main character).

In regards to the alt-text: I’ve never seen a hot dog that’s shorter (or just as long) as the bun. So for me, it always made perfect sense that they look like that in cartoons.

I can’t actually argue that they’re harder to replace compared to gold fish but it still made me laugh out loud.

My bf has an old book called “The Portable Curmudgeon” on his (many) bookshelves. It’s one I like to get out at glance through when one of my “friend girls” is yammering about their boyfriends and I go, “Yeah?” and “Oh. no!” at intervals.

Just to let you know, I binge read the entire series over the last few days, and am a new fan. So add one to your list of readers. (It is a drag waiting a whole week for the next installment, after reading 30 a day.) BTW, another SW Ontario reader from Sarnia where we also have interesting colored air.

Ah Sarnia. I actually quite like Sarnia. It’s got a beachy ‘quiet town on the water’ feel with only minimal urban blight. If it weren’t for that state across the water from you, I’d totally recommend it!

And I’m truly sorry that you now have to wait a week for each comic. You can also take the approach that many readers do with my work: forget about for two or three years then rediscover it when there’s enough content to actually amount to a decent read. That’s good too!